I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Re:I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar by csharp on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @10:23AM (#13365428)

I am surprised more people haven't pointed this out. It is actually pretty nice, since I can slam in so many more macro keys to my touch bar for actions than the fn keys allowed me to have. Not saying the laptop is the best (I have many annoyances with it too), but I have been able to customize the touch bar for my workflow pretty well. Especially with BetterTouchTool.

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Re:I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar by dgrealy on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @10:52AM (#13365715)

Agree. Touchbar is like a re-incarnation of what function keys were originally, when the only people who used computers were programmers who would be writing their own functions for those keys. Of course they fell to disuse. Now they are having new life breathed in to them.

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Re:I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar by baq on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @07:52AM (#13373563)

except 1) esc isn't a function key (right? right...?) 2) the buttons are (as one commenter here pointed out) too easy to hit accidentally and to hard to hit intentionally.

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Re:I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar by dgrealy on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:01PM (#13377007)

I would prefer if esc was left as a physical button. But pleased with where this is going after using it.

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